Ansible variables
Been doing some abstraction refactoring for work and ran into a situation where I had a task that used the command module in a loop and I needed to be able t...
Work
Xen and vlans
During a big lab move at work a few months ago, we decided that our utility virt server needed VLAN support. The dhcp vm needed interfaces on three differen...
New Bugzilla!
So we finally wrapped up the big migration of bugzilla.redhat.com yesterday morning. We moved from an internal system (1 web, 1 db w hot spare) to one in th...
Subversion and mod_auth_kerb issues
Been trying to track down some issues with the new Subversion servers at work. They are setup to be accessed via https only, authentication provided by mod_...
virt-install
My favorite RHEL5 feature by far is the new ‘virt-install’ utility. Being able to do a VM install by running:
Raises are cool…
That’s it. Nothing more.
Only 8.5G?
Brew/Koji’s db is well over 100G, Bugzilla is ~11G so your puny 8.5G RT database fails to impress. :)
RHEL5 XEN nat’ing
Been playing with the new virt layer in RHEL5 and having a blast. I did have to make some changes to get NAT to work with guest domains. Nothing huge, just...
Postgresql replication blows
Yup, that’s right. I said it. Postgresql replication options blow. Hardcore. To summarize the options:
Openssh pts fun
So… Came across a whole new bug today that had me scratching my head for quite a while. One of my servers at work started hanging during ssh logins complete...
smbk5pwd followup
I went ahead and hacked an ebuild to include the smbk5pwd overlay and submitted a bug to the Gentoo bugzilla. I don’t know how well it will be received sinc...
Fedora Directory Server v1.0 released!
Sweetness!
Heimdal, Samba and system password sync
I’ve been looking for ways to keep passwords stored in LDAP in sync, and I came across the smbk5pwd module/overlay for OpenLDAP. It only works with OpenLDAP...
Securing SSH with DenyHosts
Good read if you have folks trying brute-force attacks….
Two NICS + One subnet + Linux = Headaches
Meethune (mostly) and I have been trying to wrap up the final bits of our new Xen toy at the office, and had run into a roadblock on the networking end of th...
FeedWordPress
Wanna add posts from other sites into your own? Rad Geek has a plugin that does just that called FeedWordPress. I’m thinking moving PlanetOSSI over to this...
Weekend Fun
Learned a few things this weekend about computers and religion: xfsdump/xfsrestore is a beautiful combo. Had the root partition decide to develop bad secto...
Slashdot Posting
Seems fitting that my first Slashdot posting is about this CRADA…
Navy R&D project looks to open-source use – Computerworld
Getting press for this CRADA in ComputerWorld ain’t half bad! And to think, one little LiveCD helped kick the whole thing off… ;)
RAID 5 via mdadm
Finally got the SATA PCI cards (SIIG SC-SA4011) in at work today so I was able to go ahead and build the new RAID array.
Planet OSSI
We now have the startings of Planet OSSI! The design is a quick hack job and the logo is a Gimp, but I think it will do for now…
mdadm RAID 1 Migration
I’m migrating our work server over to a complete RAID setup (software) and needed to find a way to migrate the system partitions over to RAID 1 with a minim...
Weekend
Got to just mope around the house this weekend with Tiff since Britton decided to spend the weekend with the grandparents. Been rather nice with the excepti...
Technorati tags and WordPress themes
Just discovered something rather interesting. If you are using Technorati tags, make sure your WP theme includes the rss links in the header. This will make...
TGIF
Yea, this is certainly a big fscking TGIF kinda day. This week has pretty much wiped me out just dealing with the monkeys at work. When you ...
Coolest admin tool ever!
phpLDAPadmin has gotta be one of the coolest tools I’ve seen for administering an LDAP server. Ton of nifty features and all sorts of extras like copying en...
Request Tracker on RHES3
Here’s my notes from an install of Request Tracker on a Redhat Enterprise 3 boxen. The owner of the box got in touch with me after his admin(s) had tried ev...
OGO – Evolution Connector
Now we get a true open groupware solution!
SNMP, MRTG and Squid
Meethune got me on a MRTG kick this past week, which lead me on a SNMP frenzy.
Evo and OGO
Anders Carlsson has an update on the work being done on an OpenGroupware.org plugin for Evolution. I’m really looking forward to seeing this, since we are l...
Jobs Suck
Well the accreditation team finished up their sweep of the department and left this afternoon, but not before screwing me completely. It seems that some of ...
Super Size Me
Watched Super Size Me tonight while discussing ebuild conversion for PMF/Bob/epac with Meethune. It was actually quite good, tho quite disturbing to see the...
Promotion?
Not really sure if it is, but I’m now the “Senior Technical Advisor” with OSSI…
Work
Let’s see here… I just wrapped up getting everything together for the accreditation board’s visit to the department which wasn’t really a big deal, just a b...
More Sparks Fly in Open-Source Copyright Fight
You know, for what’s supposed to be a “community” project, the Mambo folks sure are acting a fool. I’ve seen all the communications between the two companie...
Routing loop
This pretty much speaks for it’s self…
New (kinda) ThinkPad
Finally replaced that old, overheating Dell Latitude C600 with a slightly faster and smaller IBM ThinkPad T21. The Linux support this laptop has is pretty s...
OSSI Move
We (OSSI) finally got moved into our new building yesterday… Had to do the usual fight with Comcast to get a working internet connection, plus I’m still tra...
Compile Cluster
Now that I’m back in the blogging mode, I figured a quick rundown of how we (Jake and I) got this compile cluster up and running. We started with Gentoo Lin...
LinuxWorld/NYC Recap
Wow! This was one hell of a trip!
New York, New York!
HELL YES!!!
Comdex: Day One
This has been a very, very fruitful day out here. All 250+ Leopard CD’s and our promotional lit within the first 90 minutes of the exhibit floor opening thi...
The Saga of the tg3 Module that Killed a Server (or The Monday that Wouldn’t End)
Our story begins in the early evening of an unassuming Monday evening, November 3rd to be exact.
Samba 3.0! Finally!
Thank god this one is finally here… Samba/Windoze has been giving me fits for months now and I’m hoping this will ease that somewhat. Release notes show so...